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A short history of Chinua Achebe's Things fall apart /

In the accessible and concise A Short History of Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart, Terri Ochiagha asks new questions and brings wider attention to unfamiliar but crucial elements of the story, including new insights into questions of canonicity, and into literary, historiographical, and precol...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Ochiagha, Terri (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Athens, Ohio : Ohio University Press, [2018]
Colección:Ohio short histories of Africa.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Turning and turning in the widening gyre
  • The world of stories
  • Encounters with the colonial library
  • The lost manuscript and other harrowing adventures
  • The blood-dimmed tide is loosed
  • First impressions
  • Things fall apart and its critics
  • Of canons, sons, and daughters
  • Spiritus mundi
  • Artistic interactions
  • Adaptations, appropriations, and mimesis
  • Things fall apart's worldwide readers
  • Conclusion: Whither things fall apart?